"The Committee notes the efforts taken to provide psychological assistance to victims of sexual violence. However, the Committee remains concerned about the delay in the approving the national strategy against gender-based violence; the small number of cases reported with respect to sexual and gender-based violence; the difficulties faced by women to obtain redress through the justice system; the stigmatization faced by women victims of sexual violence; their difficulties to access medical and psychological support; the absence of a definition of rape in the Criminal Code; the absence of legal provisions criminalizing domestic violence and marital rape; and the persistence, despite its criminalization under the Act of 23 December 1998, of...more

According to the WHO violence and homocide statistics, the total femicide rate as of 2015 was 5.1 per 100,000 female population. For ages 15-44, the rate was calculated to be 3.87 per 100,000 female population.

Data from the United Nations' Thirty-Fifth and Thirty-Sixth Reports of the Secretary-General on the Human Rights Operation in Cote d'Ivoire reveal that the number of reported rapes between 1 May 2014 and 1 May 2015 was 260. Thus, the reported rape rate for that twelve month period is 1.13 per 100,000 (TPJ - CODER COMMENT).

According to the 2018 WHO statistical report, the proportion of married or in-union women of reproductive age (15-49 years) who have their need for family planning satisified wih modern methods is 31.1 (latest available data for 2007-2017).

According to the 2018 WHO statistical report, the under-five (0-5 years) mortality rate is 91.8 per 1000 live births and the neonatal mortality rate (infants who die within 28 days of birth) is 36.6 per 1000 live births (data is from 2016).

According to the 2018 WHO statistical report, the average life expectancy for both sexes is 54.6 years, with the average life expectancy being 53.6 years for men and 55.7 years for women (data taken from global health estimates 2000-2016).